A68840:1791
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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1The servant did give his master wise counsel, if a man should look upon that the event. For it is dangerous to travail by night especially for a man that is a stranger and unarmed, as this Levite was, which had with him only his wife and his servant. Neither is this any new or unaccustomed thing that servants are sometimes wiser than their masters, although it oftentimes happeneth, that counsel hath authority of the giver: as we understand happened here, where counsel although it were profitable,2 is despised, peradventure because it came from a servant. Aristotle in his Politics saith, they which excel in mind & counsel ought ⟨p. 251⟩to bear rule and they which are strong of body must obey. But that cometh not always to pass: yea rather it oftentimes happeneth that masters which are not of the wisest, but yet strong in body, have servants far wiser then themselves, although they be not very strong in body. Farther we must not deny,3 but the prudence and counsels which are the gifts of God are not bound unto the conditions or estates of Lordship and servitude, nor also to the temperatures of bodies. God giveth them, to them whom he thinketh good, & that most freely, sometimes to servants, and sometimes to Lords, sometimes to poor men, and sometimes to rich men. GOD ministered unto a man being a servant good counsel: which yet the Levite would not fellow to his great hurt. For if he had turned into the City of the Jebusites, peradventure he had not fallen into that calamity which followed.
1The seruant did geue his maister wise counsell, if a man should loke vpon yt the euent. For it is daungerous to trauayle by night especially for a man that is a straunger and vnarmed, as this Leuite was, which had with him onely his wife and his seruant. Neyther is this any new or vnaccustomed thinge that seruantes ar somtimes wiser thē their masters, although it oftētimes happeneth, that counsel hath authority of the geuer: as we vnderstand happened here, wher counsel although it were profitable,2